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FIVE-A-DAY COUNTDOWN: Hollow Point, Invincible, The Green Ghost, Kickboxer: Armageddon, and Kung Fu League

This is it! The final five!… Hollow Point: As close as director Daniel Zirilli plays things to the chest, it’s hard to keep up with what he’s doing a lot of times. Hollow Point was especially one that I didn’t see coming now with actor Luke Goss getting full frontal billing in actor Dilan Jay’s feature debut about a widowed family man looking for reprisal with the help of a clandestine unit of vigilantes. Michael Pare and JuJu Chan also star. Date pending. Invincible: Look no further than this recently-announced action pic from the aforementioned Zirilli, directing and producing alongside D3 Telefilm. Johnny Strong plays the head of security assigned to hunt down a runaway experimental supersoldier, played by martial arts star Marko Zaror. The Green Ghost: I’m giving this particular superhero adventure another shot. Neither 2016 nor 2017 took for Michael D. Olmos’s fantasy action adventure despite making a […]

A Case For Better KICKBOXER Movies: Enough Already

Lee B. Golden III

I’m not gonna bother going into a long, watered-down analysis about the rebooted Kickboxer franchise… Nor am I going to tolerate excuses about how hard it is to make physically demanding, fight heavy action films. That is simply a given. What I will do is give it to you straight while the last few years of this franchise is painfully fresh in my head as we cheer on the career fruition of its star, Alain Moussi. I like the prospects of seeing him on screen, but fuck it. These Kickboxer movies suck. Enter the elusive John Stockwell who came aboard to helm the 2016 reboot based on the 1989 JCVD revenge thriller. The reboot, dubbed Vengeance, tries to build off of the original and, in essence, segues into a world-building affair brimming with martial arts and muscle as Kurt Sloan trains to defeat the man who murdered his brother in […]

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Alain Moussi Is A New Man In The Preliminary Teaser For KICKBOXER: ARMAGEDDON

Lee B. Golden III

I myself couldn’t really get past some of the fan-service that culminates all seemingly ado with the current Kickboxer franchise following the reboot in 2016. I suppose the best part is that Dmitri Logothetis has found a direction to take it in, onward from Vengeance through Redemption and now with the third, Kickboxer: Armageddon. And indeed, that’s Alain Moussi in the footage donning a whole new Kurt Sloan we haven’t seen before. Brand new look and all! Other details are officially pending but Logothetis himself has mentioned the possible return of Mike Tyson, Ronadinho and Christopher Lambert in addition to George St. Pierre and other UFC and sports favorites…and Snoop Dogg for some reason? He’s also presented a brand new teaser to help stir the fandom some, so check it out anf expect more Kickboxer news onward through 2019.